PhD Thesis Defence
Boyu Li, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Regular Dilation on Semigroups"
Boyu Li, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Regular Dilation on Semigroups"
Pure Mathematics PhD student Sam Harris won the 2018 Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper by a Mathematics Graduate Student. This award recognizes the impact of his paper Connes’ embedding conjecture and winning strategies for quantum XOR games with a prize of $4,000.

Dennis The, The University of Tromso
"Exceptionally simple PDE"
Eli Shamovich, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Free Function Theory on the Noncommutative Ball"
Dhruv Ranganathan
MIT
"Moduli of Elliptic Curves in Toric Varieties and Tropical Geometry"
Fan Ge, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"The number of zeros of $\zeta'(s)$
Nickolas Rollick, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Message Re-Sheaved"
Tristan Freiberg, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Distribution of primes in intervals"
Hongdi Huang, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"On *-clean group algebras"
A ring $R$ is called a $*$-ring (or a ring with involution $*$) if there exists an operation $*$: $R \rightarrow R$ such that $(x+y)^*=x^*+y^*, \,\ (xy)^*=y^*x^* \,\ $ and $(x^*)^*=x$,
for all $x, y\in R$. An element in a ring $R$ is called $*$-clean if it is the sum of a unit and a projection ($*$-invariant idempotent). A $*$-ring is called $*$-clean if each of its elements is the sum of a unit and a projection.
Anthony McCormick, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Algebraic Groups"